![]() If someone is murdered and there's a butler around, but he didn't do it, that's not automatically a subversion of The Butler Did It that's an aversion. To put this another way, a trope of the form "X are often Y" is not subverted by every X you can think of that isn't Y. ![]() The set-up is a trope the "something else" is the subversion. First, the expectation is set up that something we have seen plenty of times before is coming, then that set-up is paid off with something else entirely. It certainly isn't the only way.Ī subversion has two mandatory segments. This is one method of leveraging a trope to give a story texture. Phrased another way, the work is ultimately revealed not to be using the trope at all, but in the meantime was played up to look like it was. ![]() So when the writer decides to build on this expectation, only to reveal that the expected "trope" was a Red Herring while an entirely different situation results, you have a Subverted Trope. As such, sufficiently Trope Savvy audience members can predict a familiar trope coming based on the hints dropped by the writer. A work makes you think a trope is going to happen, but it doesn't.īut how could people know a trope is going to happen? Well, tropes live in the minds of the audience. Basically, this is playing bait and switch with a trope.
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